Calculus Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities.

— James Clerk Maxwell

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

— William Godwin

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

— Leonhard Euler

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.

— Seth Klarman

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

— John Cage

The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

— Stephen Schneider